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Em áreas como a saúde, o número de publicações científicas, é cada vez maior devido ao avanço exponencial da ciência. Estas publicações tem o papel de disseminar o conhecimento, que tem uma função essencial nas instituições de ensino superior, tais como as escolas de enfermagem, quer como centros de pesquisa e investigação, quer como responsáveis pela forma actualizada e multidisciplinar de profissionais de saúde capazes de evidenciar uma prática informada e validada.
A indexação tem aí o seu papel fundamental, justificando a partir de se conhecer melhor o contributo das bibliotecas universitárias no acesso à informação e à documentação. Com esse propósito, pretende-se neste estudo medir a consistência da indexação nas bibliotecas das escolas de enfermagem/saúde públicas existentes em Portugal.
Foi definido como amostra a totalidade das escolas de enfermagem/saúde públicas (N=21), as quais foram analisadas em dois momentos diferentes. Para proceder ao estudo do processo de indexação foi utilizado um inquérito. Para a medição da consistência de indexação procedemos à selecção nas respectivas bases de dados de um documento livro e de uma publicação periódica existente na totalidade da amostra, comparando os termos usados pelas diferentes bibliotecas universitárias para a indexação do mesmo documento
Os resultados obtidos relativamente à consistência da indexação foram de 21.1 % para a publicação periódica e de 18.9 % para o livro, o que na sua totalidade perfaz uma consistência de 20.9 % atribuída às bibliotecas, valor que consideramos baixo, mas que vai de encontro dos estudos analisados por Zunde e Dexter (1969) que evidenciam valores entre de 10% a 80%, dependendo estes dos parâmetros em que a indexação é efectuada e a medida de consistência utilizada.
Relativamente ao estudo do processo de indexação, todas as hipóteses foram rejeitadas, pelo que verificamos que a nossa variável dependente - consistência da indexação - não sofre alterações com factores como a formação, tipo de documento, anos de experiência como indexador, o que nos abre outros caminhos de investigação, de forma a encontrar procedimentos adequados para o aumento da consistência verificada neste estudo.
In areas such as health, the number of scientific publications is increasing due to the exponential advancement of science. These publications have the role of disseminating knowledge, which has an essential role in higher education institutions, such as nursing schools, both as research and investigations centres, and as responsible for the updated and multidisciplinary way health professionals are able to demonstrate an informed and validated practice. That’s where indexing has its fundamental role, justifying from knowing better the contribution of university libraries in access to information and documentation. For this purpose, this study aims to measure the consistency of indexing in libraries of nursing/ public health schools existing in Portugal. It was set to sample all nursing/public health schools (N = 21), which were examined in two different times. To proceed to the study of the indexing process an investigation was used. For the measurement of the consistency of indexing, we use the selection in their document databases and a document book of regular publication in the whole sample, comparing the terms used by different university libraries for the indexing of the same document. The results obtained with regard to indexing consistency were of 21.1% for periodic publication and 18.9% for the book, which in its totality makes a consistency of 20.9% allocated to libraries, a value we consider low, but that goes against the studies analyzed by Zunde and Dexter (1969) which highlight values between 10% to 80%, depending on these parameters on which indexing is performed and the consistency measure is used. With regard to the study of the indexing process, all hypotheses were rejected, so we can see that our dependent variable -consistency of indexing - does not change with factors such as training, document type, years of experience as an indexer, which opens other research paths, in order to find appropriate procedures for the increased consistency checked in this study.
In areas such as health, the number of scientific publications is increasing due to the exponential advancement of science. These publications have the role of disseminating knowledge, which has an essential role in higher education institutions, such as nursing schools, both as research and investigations centres, and as responsible for the updated and multidisciplinary way health professionals are able to demonstrate an informed and validated practice. That’s where indexing has its fundamental role, justifying from knowing better the contribution of university libraries in access to information and documentation. For this purpose, this study aims to measure the consistency of indexing in libraries of nursing/ public health schools existing in Portugal. It was set to sample all nursing/public health schools (N = 21), which were examined in two different times. To proceed to the study of the indexing process an investigation was used. For the measurement of the consistency of indexing, we use the selection in their document databases and a document book of regular publication in the whole sample, comparing the terms used by different university libraries for the indexing of the same document. The results obtained with regard to indexing consistency were of 21.1% for periodic publication and 18.9% for the book, which in its totality makes a consistency of 20.9% allocated to libraries, a value we consider low, but that goes against the studies analyzed by Zunde and Dexter (1969) which highlight values between 10% to 80%, depending on these parameters on which indexing is performed and the consistency measure is used. With regard to the study of the indexing process, all hypotheses were rejected, so we can see that our dependent variable -consistency of indexing - does not change with factors such as training, document type, years of experience as an indexer, which opens other research paths, in order to find appropriate procedures for the increased consistency checked in this study.
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Indexação Consistência da indexação Indexador-perfil Fases da indexação Política de indexação Escola Superior de Enfermagem Pública-Biblioteca Indexing Indexing consistency Indexer-profile Stages of indexing Indexing policy University library Public School of Nursing-Library